[geeks] Speaking of Mozilla.....

[Phil Stracchino]

...I just made the interesting and unhappymaking discovery that when you
delete mail with Mozilla, Mozilla doesn't delete it.  It just *marks* it
as deleted and doesn't show it to you any more, but it's still all right
there on your disk in mbox format.  Mozilla just keeps track in the
Inbox.msf file for each account of which messages in Inbox are allegedly
deleted.  Aorta like MSDOS changing the first character of "deleted"
filenames to ^E.

You can tell Mozilla to trash the mail, and it says, "OK, message marked
as trashed."  Then you tell Mozilla to empty the trash, and it says "OK,
trash marked as emptied."

Then you open up ~/$USER/.mozila/$username/hash/Mail/$account/Inbox, and
gee golly gosh, there it is, intact and untouched.

And I've spent the last 30 minutes or so discovering that if you go in
and manually clean them out, Mozilla gets unhappy.  




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